Orange

Original on canvas

60 x 60 cm

2025

The gaze is overwhelmed by a monumental orange, executed with impeccable technique: the porosity of the rind, the vitreous luster of the foreground slice, and the chromatic vitality push the boundaries of photorealism.

At the heart of this two-dimensional perfection, the eye stumbles upon a bold rupture: a square void within the painting.

Within this suspended emptiness emerges a second orange. A small, absolute, three-dimensional presence that offers itself as the material projection of the painting’s very essence.

This is where the “vortex of the senses” is born:

While the Third Dimension lays claim to its gravity, challenging the canvas to become a real and habitable space, the Second Dimension seduces the sight, proving that the warmth of color can transmit the freshness of the fruit even more than matter itself.

The eyes and the mind remain trapped in an infinite rebound between what is laid down by the brush and what appears ready to be plucked. The three-dimensional orange refers back to the painted one, and vice versa, in a cycle that disorients the gaze and defies perception, causing the certainty of what we define as “real” to waver.